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"Hook the reader with your opening," they say - but precisely whom are you hooking? -- TalkToYoUniverse (Start, FirstPage, Hook, Advice, Writing)
'Hopefully': Five Decades of Foolishness - Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education (Change, History, English, Grammar)
10 Science Fiction Novels Every Writer Should Read | writingishardwork (Writer, Recommendation, List, Reading, Novel, SciFi, SF)
3 Ways People Are Tricked Into Reading Science Fiction and Fantasy (And Why It's a Good Thing) | Kirkus Book Reviews (Readers, Trick, SciFi, SF, Reading)
6 Things You Don't Know About Google+ - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor (GooglePlus)
The search giant's social network isn't about to disappear. And if you use it wisely, you can supersize your online presence. / Here's one of my current favorite hobbies: I sit down with potential clients, toss out a reference to Google+ and wait for the inevitable reply--that “it’s never going to make it” or “we don’t believe in it.” / Then I slowly shake my head, take a breath, and reveal what Google isn’t telling you about the importance of their social push. / 1. It’s not a social network.
A Better Class of Genre | There's A Story In Everything (Writing, Reading, Definition, Genre)
A list of the most popular highlights by Kindle readers -- Amazon Kindle (Quote, Highlight, Kindle)
A list of the most popular highlights by Kindle readers.
A Result Of Zero Doesn't Always Mean Zero Results - Science News (AstroPhysics, Zero, Results.Negative, Results, Science)
Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing
A.E. van Vogt: ‘Throw a Corpse Through the Skylight.’ -- The Way the Future Blogs, an online memoir by science fiction writer Frederik Pohl (Author, SciFi, SF, VanVogt)
A.E. van Vogt, who was born in Canada on this date in 1912 but moved early to Southern California and never left, became a major sf writer with almost his first story and remained so through the rest of the Campbelll revolution. / That first story was “Black Destroyer,” in the July. 1939 issue of Astounding, and it did almost what Stanley G. Weinbaum had done with his first story, “A Martian Odyssey.” It revolutionized science fiction’s treatment of aliens. Weinbaum’s character Tweel had been the first successful attempt to describe an alien creature not merely as a threat to humans but as a character — not human in any way, but with as much personality and individuality as any homo sapiens. Van Vogt completed the process by telling his story from the Black Destroyer’s point of view.
An Interview with Guy Harrison, author of Agents of Change (Novel, Superhero, Interview, Author)
Attract Literary Agents Without Begging | BOOKS & BUZZ (Advice, Writing, Agent)
Black Destroyer by A.E. Van Vogt (1938, SciFi, SF, ShortStory, VanVogt)
Book Marketing for Nitwits: Keywords | The Loneliest Planet by Randy Ross (NonFiction, Word.Key, Keyword, Tagging, Tag, Book, Marketing)
For months, agent blogs have been exhorting writers -- even fiction writers -- to build a massive online platform of potential readers. So, last week I took the plunge and borrowed "Online Book Marketing" by Lorraine Phillips from the library. (If I had the dough and could be guaranteed this would get me an agent, I surely would have paid for it.) / Note: The book is geared toward non-fiction writers, but it was one of simplest, most clearly written books on online book marketing that I'd seen. I decided to see if it would work for fiction writers. / One the first steps: Figure out my brand, my audience, and find keyword phrases that will entice readers to my site when they perform online searches. (Key part of successful platform is a Web site that gets lots of traffic.)
Close Read: Alan Turing’s Apple : The New Yorker (Humanity, Government, Fail, TuringTest, AlanTuring)
Does the quantum wave function represent reality? (Probability, Theory, Knowledge, Science, Randomness, Philosophy, Reality, Physics.Quantum, Physics, Quantum)
At the heart of quantum mechanics lies the wave function, a probability function used by physicists to understand the nanoscale world. Using the wave function, physicists can calculate a system's future behavior, but only with a certain probability. This inherently probabilistic nature of quantum theory differs from the certainty with which scientists can describe the classical world, leading to a nearly century-long debate on how to interpret the wave function: does it representative objective reality or merely the subjective knowledge of an observer? In a new paper, physicists Roger Colbeck of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, and Renato Renner who is based at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have presented an argument strongly in favor of the objective reality of the wave function, which could lead to a better understanding of the fundamental meaning of quantum mechanics. / As Colbeck and Renner explain in their paper published in Physical Review Letters, there are two ...
Evidence against Dark Matter and for modified gravity which would mean some chance for FTL if true (FTL, Gravity.ModifiedTheory, Gravity, DarkMatter)
The variation of the kinematical properties of the Galactic thick disk with Galactic height Z is studied by means of 412 red giants observed in the direction of the south Galactic pole up to 4.5 kpc from the plane. We confirm the non-null mean radial motion toward the Galactic anticenter found by other authors, but we find that it changes sign at |Z| = 3 kpc, and the proposed inward motion of the local standard of rest alone cannot explain these observations. The rotational velocity decreases with |Z| by –30 km s–1 kpc–1, but the data are better represented by a power law with index 1.25, similar to that proposed from the analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. All the velocity dispersions increase with |Z|, but the vertical gradients are small. The dispersions grow proportionally, with no significant variation of the anisotropy. The ratio sU/sW = 2 suggests that the thick disk could have formed from a low-latitude merging event. The vertex deviation increases with Galactic ...
Forgotten Book: RGK: The Art of Roy Krenkel, 2005 | Missions Unknown (Review, Book, Art, RoyKrenkal)
Forgotten Films: Queen of Outer Space (1958) | Missions Unknown (SciFi, SF, 1950s, Retro, Review, Film, Movie)
High Altitude Launch for a Practical SSTO (Tech.DocMorrow, DocMorrow, Abstract, SSTO, Tower, MegaStructure, LaunchSystem, Launch)
Existing engineering materials allow the constuction of towers to heights of many kilometers. Orbital launch from a high altitude has significant advantages over sea-level launch due to the reduced atmospheric pressure, resulting in lower atmospheric drag on the vehicle and allowing higher rocket engine performance. High-altitude launch sites are particularly advantageous for single-stage to orbit (SSTO) vehicles, where the payload is typically 2% of the initial launch mass. An earlier paper enumerated some of the advantages of high altitude launch of SSTO vehicles. In this paper, we calculate launch trajectories for a candidate SSTO vehicle, and calculate the advantage of launch at launch altitudes 5 to 25 kilometer altitudes above sea level. The performance increase can be directly translated into increased payload capability to orbit, ranging from 5 to 20% increase in the mass to orbit. For a candidate vehicle with an initial payload fraction of 2% of gross lift-off weight, this ...
HijackThis | PCWorld (Cleaner, MalWare, Tool, Ms.Windows, FreeWare)
Though I might be thinking Hijack This Sucker! or Hijack This @%!$! when I fire up this super-handy system snooper, I suppose the simple HijackThis moniker the original authors applied has just the right amount of attitude. Recently acquired by Trend Micro of anti-virus fame, this sniffer/cleanup utility searches autorun items, processes, services, and the Windows registry for the kinds of entries and activities that hackers use to invade and infect your system.
How a culture of fear thrives in attention economies, and what that means for "radical transparency" and the Zuckerberg doctrine - Boing Boing (Privacy, BoingBoing, Transparency, Video, Media, News, Politics, Economy, Attention, Fear)
Danah boyd's "The Power of Fear in Networked Publics" is a speech delivered at SXSW and Webstock New Zealand (that's where this video comes from). Danah first defines a culture of fear ("the ways in which fear is employed by marketers, politicians, technology designers [e.g., consider security narratives] and the media to regulate the public"), then shows how "attention economics" can exploit fear to bring in attention ("there is a long history of news media leveraging fear to grab attention") and how this leads fear to dominate many of our debates:
How Technicolor created ruby slippers without using color film (io9, Tech, Technicolor, Color, WizardOfOz, Film, Movie)
Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July - Yahoo! News (2012, FBI, Vulnerability, Ms.Windows, Alert, Virus, Security, Warning, News)
For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. / Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down. / The FBI is encouraging users to visit a website run by its security partner, http://www.dcwg.org , that will inform them whether they're infected and explain how to fix the problem. After July 9, infected users won't be able to connect to the Internet. / Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their web surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.
Improving on the amazing: Scientists seek new conductors for metamaterials (Tech, Watch, MetaMaterial)
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have designed a method to evaluate different conductors for use in metamaterial structures, which are engineered to exhibit properties not possible in natural materials. The work was reported this month in Nature Photonics. / Cloaking devices that hide planes from RADAR, microscopes that can see inside a single cell, and miniature antennae that measure only a few millimeters all sound like parts of a science fiction movie. But, within the span of the decade since they began their work, Ames Laboratory physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research team have moved these and other innovations from the realm of fiction closer to reality. / “Metamaterials have a few fundamentally new properties that may allow for many new applications,” said Soukoulis. For instance, natural materials refract light to the opposite side of the incidence normal, while metamaterials can refract light to the same side (left-handed materials), ...
Interviewing Authors: A Look at Process | BookLife (Writing, Interview, Process, Author)
Is the removal of DRM really significant? | Stormwolf.com (Publishing, Trend, Publisher.Traditional, Publishers, Ebook, DRM)
Jay Sherer on Learning from Film: Story Structure, Part 1 -- [GUEST POST] -- SF Signal – A Speculative Fiction Blog (Film, Movie, StoryStructure, Structure, Story, Writing)
Knight, Damon -- SPACELIGHT (Bio, Critique, Author, SciFi, SF, DamonKnight)
McKibben Artificial Pneumatic Muscles - Teresa (DJ.TechInRealLife, DJ.TechInTheNews, DJ, Tech, Watch, Artificial, Muscle, Pneumatic)
A pneumatic artificial muscle is, in essence, a membrane that will expand radially and contract axially when inflated, while generating high pulling forces along the longitudinal axis. Different designs have been developed. The best known is the so called McKibben muscle . This muscle contains a rubber tube which will expand when inflated, while a surrounding netting transfers tension. Hysteresis, due to dry friction between the netting and the rubber tube, makes control of such a device rather complicated. Typical of this type of muscles is a threshold level of pressure before any action can take place. The main goal of the new design was to avoid both friction and hysteresis, thus making control easier while avoiding the threshold. This was achieved by arranging the membrane into radially laid out folds that can unfurl free of radial stress when inflated. The membrane's stiff longitudinal fibres transfer tension. The inflated and deflated state of the Pleated Pneumatic Artificial ...
Mechanical motion rectifier leads to better energy harvesting (EnergyGeneration, EnergyHarvester, Tech, Watch, Mechanical, Energy.Mechanical, Energy)
Mechanical energy is all around us, whether in the form of a vehicle's vibrations, ocean waves, or vibrating train tracks. However, much of this energy is irregular and oscillatory - for example, road bumps cause a vehicle to move up and down at random intervals - but energy harvesting works best with regular, unidirectional motion. To address this problem, a team of engineers from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook has developed a new type of energy harvester that converts irregular, oscillatory motion into regular, unidirectional motion, in the same way that an electric voltage rectifier converts AC voltage into DC. Among its applications, the energy harvester could be used in regenerative shock absorbers, which have the potential to save US drivers billions of dollars per year in fuel costs. / The engineers, led by SUNY Mechanical Engineering Professor Lei Zuo, have been working on energy harvesting devices for the past decade. Their regenerative shock ...
metamaterial superconductivity - Google Search (SuperCondcutor, SuperConductivity, MetaMaterial, Search, Google)
MIND MELD: Great Genre Reads For Teenage Girls - SF Signal – A Speculative Fiction Blog (List, Recommendation, Reading, Girl, YA, Fantasy, SciFi, SF, Genre, MindMeld)
MIT Hagelstein Cold Fusion Demonstration has been producing excess heat for two months straight (EnergyGeneration, Energy, Tech, Watch, LENR, ColdFusion)
Cold Fusion Times reports that Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr was hosted at MIT by Professor Peter Hagelstein and Dr. Mitchell Swartz who demonstrated their JET Energy cold fusion paladium-zirconium based NANOR system which has reportedly been able to show a continuous production of excess heat for over two months.
New material shares many of graphene's unusual properties (Graphene, MaterialScience)
Graphene, a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, has spawned much research into its unique electronic, optical and mechanical properties. Now, researchers at MIT have found another compound that shares many of graphene’s unusual characteristics — and in some cases has interesting complementary properties to this much-heralded material. / The material, a thin film of bismuth-antimony, can have a variety of different controllable characteristics, the researchers found, depending on the ambient temperature and pressure, the material’s thickness and the orientation of its growth. The research, carried out by materials science and engineering PhD candidate Shuang Tang and Institute Professor Mildred Dresselhaus, appears in the journal Nano Letters. / Like graphene, the new material has electronic properties that are known as two-dimensional Dirac cones, a term that refers to the cone-shaped graph plotting energy versus momentum for electrons moving through the material. These unusual ...
Paul Di Filippo reviews Henry Kuttner -- Locus Online Reviews (SciFi, SF, HaffnerPress, Anthology, ShortStory, Book, HenryKuttner, Review)
When I was but a lad, the Science Fiction Book Club held out as enticement to join (cost: one thin dime, to be mailed physically via USPS) the two-volume anthology edited by Anthony Boucher and titled A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. When I received this induction premium, my head practically exploded. The set contained four complete novels, and a wealth of shorter fiction. Holding those books, I felt a palpable sense of the living, ongoing history of the field, and a vision of the riches the genre contained. I marveled that any editor could assemble between two covers (okay, four covers) such a generous treasure trove for my enjoyment. Needless to say, I hardly waited ten minutes after receipt before diving into them, and they fulfilled all the advertised delights. / I get the same feeling these days whenever I receive a book from Haffner Press (or from NESFA Press, or Subterranean Press, or a few other worthy independent publishers). The giant, career-spanning compilations ...
Perfecting Your First Page: 3 Tasks or Exercises | Jane Friedman (Start, FirstPage, First, Advice, Writing)
Over the weekend, I was a speaker at the Missouri Writers Guild conference (a terrific group of people and an impeccably run event). One of my sessions focused on evaluating the first page of your novel or memoir manuscript. / Here are 3 of the best exercises or tasks you might undertake when thinking about your first page and how you can improve it before sending it to agents or editors.
peter clines -- Kevin J. Burke (DOT COM!) (PeterClines, Zombie, ExHeroes, Novel, Superhero, Interview, Author)
Physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits (Simulation, Tech, Watch, Computation.Quantum, Computing, Quantum)
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. As described in the April 26 issue of Nature, the simulator has passed a series of important benchmarking tests and scientists are poised to study problems in material science that are impossible to model on conventional computers. / Many important problems in physics—especially low-temperature physics—remain poorly understood because the underlying quantum mechanics is vastly complex. Conventional computers—even supercomputers—are inadequate for simulating quantum systems with as few as 30 particles. Better computational tools are needed to understand and rationally design materials, such as high-temperature superconductors, whose properties are believed to depend on the collective quantum behavior of hundreds of particles.
Physicists see solution to critical barrier to fusion (PowerGeneration, Tech, Watch, Fusion, Physics)
Physicists have discovered a possible solution to a mystery that has long baffled researchers working to harness fusion. If confirmed by experiment, the finding could help scientists eliminate a major impediment to the development of fusion as a clean and abundant source of energy for producing electric power. / An in-depth analysis by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) zeroed in on tiny, bubble-like islands that appear in the hot, charged gases—or plasmas—during experiments. These minute islands collect impurities that cool the plasma. And it is these islands, the scientists report in the April 20 issue of Physical Review Letters, that are at the root of a long-standing problem known as the "density limit" that can prevent fusion reactors from operating at maximum efficiency.
Pricing, Visibilty & Experimentation | David Gaughran (Results, Marketing, Visibility, Pricing, Publishing.Self, SelfPublishing, Publishing)
Progress on compressed air power storage (Tech.NovaGenesis, Tech, Watch, EnergyStorage, Storage, Power, Energy, Pneumatic)
Researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK are currently testing the Energy Bag, a large inflatable energy storage device submerged in water's off Scotland's Orkney Islands. / Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology floated a similar idea last year using hollow concrete spheres instead of inflatable bags as a storage vessel. Now the idea of harnessing compressed air on the seafloor is going beyond the drawing board with the current testing off Orkney.
Publishing exec admission: "I break ebook DRM" - Boing Boing (Publisher, BoingBoing, Ebook, DRM)
An anonymous publishing exec explains to PaidContent how he started to break DRM on the ebooks he bought (they wouldn't open on all his devices unless he did) and how, having broken DRM, he realized that DRM was total bullshit: / I believe this is justified because I realize that when I buy an e-book from Amazon, I’m really buying a license to that content, not the content itself. This is ridiculous, by the way. I feel as if e-book retailers are simply hiding behind that philosophy as a way to further support DRM and scare publishers away from considering a DRM-free world. I’m not going to say where I work, or anything about my company, but I will say that I don’t think DRM is good for the publisher, author or customer. Don’t pro-DRM publishers realize this is one of the key complaints from their customers? I’ve heard plenty of customers tell me that e-book prices need to be low because they’re only buying access to the content, not fully owning it. That needs to change.
Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past (QuantumEntanglement, Physics.Quantum, Quantum, Physics)
Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) have, for the first time, demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether two particles were in an entangled or in a separable quantum state can be made even after these particles have been measured and may no longer exist. Their results will be published this week in the journal Nature Physics. / According to the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, entanglement is the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics. In addition to its crucial role for the foundations of physics, entanglement is also a key resource for upcoming quantum information technologies such as quantum cryptography and quantum computation. Entangled particles exhibit correlations which are stronger and more intricate than those allowed by the laws of classical physics. If two particles are in an ...
Quotes for Writers: Novel Writing Advice | WritersDigest.com (Author, Writer, Writing, Quote)
SlimCleaner | PCWorld (Cleaner, Ms.Windows, Tool, FreeWare)
SlimCleaner 3.0 (free) is by far one of the more useful multi-utility tools I've run across. Aimed primarily at cleaning the junk out of your system, it has the capabilities of several popular programs, including Piriform's CCleaner and Trend Micro's HijackThis.
The Business Rusch: One Phone Call From Our Knees | Kristine Kathryn Rusch (BusinessRusch, Business, Publishing)
The Worst Article About The eBooks Anti-Trust Suit | Mike Cane’s xBlog (Monopoly, Ebook, Apple, BigSixPublishers, Lawsuit, DoJ)
Two-dimensional boron has potential advantages over graphene (2D, Tech, Watch, MaterialScience, Chemistry, Boron)
When is nothing really something? When it leads to a revelation about boron, an element with worlds of unexplored potential. / Theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his team at Rice University have taken an unusual approach to analyzing the possible configurations of two-dimensional sheets of boron, as reported this week in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters. / Treating it as Swiss cheese – in which the holes are as defining as the cheese itself – was the key concept in figuring out what atom-thin sheets of boron might look like. Those sheets, when rolled into a hollow tube, or nanotube, could have a distinct advantage over carbon nanotubes; boron nanotubes are always metallic, while the carbon atoms in a nanotubes can be arranged to form either metallic or semiconducting nanotubes. This variation in atomic arrangement — known as chirality — is one of the major hurdles to carbon nanotube processing and development.
Was Self-Publishing The Right Decision? | David Gaughran (TPPDJ, Publishing, Publishing.Self, SelfPublishing)
Wearable muscle suit makes heavy lifting a cinch - tech - 23 April 2012 - New Scientist (DJ.TechInTheNews, DispensingJustice, DJ, Japan, Pneumatic, Exoskeleton, Tech, Watch)
What Makes You Anxious & Fearful About Tech? | Jane Friedman (Fear, Psychology, Tech, Question)
Today I’m looking for your insight on a phenomenon I see a lot with people over a certain age: fearfulness and anxiety around tech. / Those of you who’ve followed my posts for a while know how much I promote the use of new media in a writing career. I think it can make it more powerful, enjoyable, and sustainable. / But when I travel to conferences, or speak conversationally with friends (about their older parents), it’s clear that there’s a significant cross-section of the population who just aren’t comfortable with tech. (And then there’s another section of people who are kinda comfortable, but don’t want to push the boundaries.) / I don’t quite understand it—where does this fearfulness or tentativeness come from? Why is there anxiety about “breaking” the computer? Where does the resistance originate? / Since I don’t really know, I’d love to collect your thoughts. What do you think?
Why superhero movies are more than just popcorn fare (io9, Film, Movie, Superhero)
Tom Hiddleston returns to his role as the villainous Loki in The Avengers, and he couldn't be happier. While some people may argue that superhero movies are cinematic fluff, Hiddleston argues that the roles offer serious challenges for serious actors. / Starting with an anecdote about how Christopher Reeve was mocked by his Julliard classmates for taking the Superman role, Hiddleston offers a defense of superhero movies, noting the work actors like Jack Nicholson, Ian McKellen, and Heath Ledger brought to their comic book-based roles. He also notes how superhero mythology offers its own emotional truths...
Worldbuilding -- The Mumpsimus (Quote, WorldBuilding)
Writers Write Creative Blog -- On Writing -- Sarah Waters (Advice, Writing)
Writers’ Writers and Writer Storytellers | Book View Cafe Blog (Writing, StoryTelling, Reading, Author, Writer)
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